Vantage is a model designation of the British car manufacturer Aston Martin, which is usually used for particularly powerful special versions of the current series vehicles. In some cases, Vantage also refers to an entire model series.
The performance-enhanced versions of an Aston Martin model series usually carry this suffix. The term was first used for a special version of the Aston Martin DB2 and was also used for all subsequent models until the late 1960s. The...
Vantage is a model designation of the British car manufacturer Aston Martin, which is usually used for particularly powerful special versions of the current series vehicles. In some cases, Vantage also refers to an entire model series.
The performance-enhanced versions of an Aston Martin model series usually carry this suffix. The term was first used for a special version of the Aston Martin DB2 and was also used for all subsequent models until the late 1960s. The Aston Martin DB6 Vantage, for example, had a factory-tuned engine that delivered 239 kW (325 hp) instead of the 207 kW (282 hp) of the base model. Later models such as the Aston Martin V8 were also offered as a Vantage. Timothy Dalton drove this car in the James Bond film The Touch of Death. A special feature was the Aston Martin V8 Volante Vantage, which combined the performance-enhanced engine with the open body of the Volante.
The name Vantage was last used for the V12-powered DB7 Vantage and the Aston Martin V8 Vantage or V12 Vantage, which was introduced in 2005 as the entry-level model.
1951–1953 DB2 Vantage
1961–1963 DB4 Vantage
1963–1965 DB5 Vantage
1965–1969 DB6 Vantage
1972–1973 Vantage
1977–1989 V8 Vantage
1986–1989 V8 Vantage Volante
1988–1990 V8 Vantage Zagato
1992–1999 Virage Vantage
1999–2003 DB7 V12 Vantage
2005–2017 V8 Vantage/V8 Vantage S
2009–2017 V12 Vantage/V12 Vantage S
seit 2017 V8 Vantage
seit 2022 V12 Vantage